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to: JEFF SMITH
from: ROBERT WOLFE
date: 2016-04-22 01:50:00
subject: Re: FTP Fido via BBBS?

-=> Jeff Smith wrote to All <=-

 JS> I guess I never paid that much attention. Is BBBS capable of providing
 JS> a Fido or FTN feed via FTP? I had a recent  request for an FTP feed but
 JS> haven't upto this point looked at that capability. Least not since the
 JS> John Souvestre days.

 JS> I know that BBBS can call out via FTP. I have written several bash
 JS> scripts that will do that. But haven't looked at BBBS  being capable of
 JS> feeding downlinks via FTP. I have ProFTPd  installed but it is a little
 JS> overkill for the task. Anyone  have thoughts?

The answer to your question, to the best of my knowledge, is no.  To do this,
you would need a third party FTP server running and scripts written to move
mail packets to and from your BBBS machine.

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